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SUMMARY: On the eve of the Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics (SBMT) Annual Congress, where PLOS is participating as an exhibitor and presenter, NASA-JPL Physicist and current SBMT President, Shouleh Nikzad, PhD, offers her vision of

Readers of this PLOS Neuro community site often ask how they can find out about new brain mapping and/or cognitive neuroscience research articles as soon as they’re published by PLOS ONE. This post explains the

Dr. Babak Kateb, Founding Chairman of the Board of the Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics and Director of National Center for NanoBioElectronics Nathaniel Gore of PLOS Collections, on the Neuromapping and Therapeutics Collection and

By Erin Yeagle Most of us don’t think twice about the fact that experimental conditions in neuroscience and psychology rarely mirror the real world. However, a small (but growing!) group of neuroscientists have made careers

By Pierre Mégevand Ever since video games have become widely available, they have reflected a strong generational divide: most of today’s grandparents probably never played video games, whereas most of their grandchildren play them on

Has neuroscience proven that men and women are born different? Or are male brains and female brains mostly similar? Is there even such a thing as a ‘male brain’? And how should scientists approach these

By Neuroskeptic Welcome to the first in a series of interviews that I’ll be conducting for PLOS Neuro as Contributing Editor! My regular blog, at Discover Magazine, is Neuroskeptic. For this first post, I spoke

By Pierre Mégevand An article published recently in PLOS ONE, Publication Bias in Psychology: A Diagnosis Based on the Correlation between Effect Size and Sample Size, by Kühberger, Fritz and Scherndl, generated healthy discussion on social media. Since its

By Margaret Y Mahan In a keynote at the 7th annual Neuroinformatics Congress in Leiden, the Netherlands on August 25, Dr. Michael Milham discussed how resting state fMRI (R-fMRI) has emerged as an approach for